Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...transplant. But early in the morning of Aug. 18, he was bumped to the front of the line. His daughter Patti -- a nursing student who carried an organ-donor card, had communicated to her family her wish to be a donor and even drove a car with a bumper sticker promoting donations -- had been thrown from a car when it hit a rock wall on the Tennessee side of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The vacation, said her brother Bob, was to have been her "last hurrah before starting school" in the fall. Instead she ended up at the University...
...ride or two days of travel and don't take a $300 chomp out of Mom and Dad's paycheck. Popping up along highways across the country, the supermarket-size playpens are quickly capturing the niche between mega-theme parks and video arcades. The range of activities -- batting cages, bumper boats, go-cart tracks -- lures exhausted parents, bored teenagers and desperate baby sitters who prefer to spend $5 on one good ride rather than a $40 flat rate for access to a dozen their kids...
...fascination with the Bobbitts and the Simpsons and the rest of them. We live in a culture that fetishizes the family as the ideal unit of human community, the perfect container for our lusts and loves. Politicians of both parties are aggressively "pro-family," even abortion-rights bumper stickers proudly link "pro-family" and "pro- choice." Only with the occasional celebrity crime do we allow ourselves to think the nearly unthinkable: that the family may not be the ideal and perfect living arrangement after all -- that it can be a nest of pathology and a cradle of gruesome violence...
...argue that any departure from the version of events he gave in his police interview -- when he presumably repeated his insistence that he was not involved in the killings at all -- shows that, in general, he can't be believed. Dilemmas like that are one reason for a new bumper sticker on the L.A. freeways: "Pray for O.J." If he's innocent, he'll need the help. If he's guilty, he'll need it even more...
There's a bumper sticker you see occasionally when you're driving down the Long Island Expressway, and it captures perfectly the sentiment of many a New York hockey...